The new Victorian chiller from the author of Radio 2 and Zoe Ball ITV Book Club pick, The Silent Companions.
Is prisoner Ruth Butterham mad or a murderer? Victim or villain?
Dorothea and Ruth.
Prison visitor and prisoner. Powerful and powerless.
Dorothea Truelove is young, wealthy and beautiful. Ruth Butterham is young, poor and awaiting trial for murder.
When Dorothea's charitable work leads her to Oakgate Prison, she is delighted with the chance to explore her fascination with phrenology and test her hypothesis that the shape of a person's skull can cast a light on their darkest crimes. But when she meets teenage seamstress Ruth, she is faced with another theory: that it is possible to kill with a needle and thread. For Ruth attributes her crimes to a supernatural power inherent in her stitches.
The story Ruth has to tell of her deadly creations - of bitterness and betrayal, of death and dresses - will shake Dorothea's belief in rationality, and the power of redemption.
Can Ruth be trusted? Is she mad, or a murderer?
Laura Purcell is a former bookseller, she lives in Colchester with her husband and pet guinea pigs. Her first novel for Bloomsbury, The Silent Companions, was a Radio 2 and Zoe Ball ITV Book Club pick and was the winner of the Thumping Good Read Award.
laurapurcell.com
@spookypurcell
The new Victorian chiller from the author of Radio 2 and Zoe Ball ITV Book Club pick, The Silent Companions.
Is prisoner Ruth Butterham mad or a murderer? Victim or villain?
Dorothea and Ruth.
Prison visitor and prisoner. Powerful and powerless.
Dorothea Truelove is young, wealthy and beautiful. Ruth Butterham is young, poor and awaiting trial for murder.
When Dorothea's charitable work leads her to Oakgate Prison, she is delighted with the chance to explore her fascination with phrenology and test her hypothesis that the shape of a person's skull can cast a light on their darkest crimes. But when she meets teenage seamstress Ruth, she is faced with another theory: that it is possible to kill with a needle and thread. For Ruth attributes her crimes to a supernatural power inherent in her stitches.
The story Ruth has to tell of her deadly creations - of bitterness and betrayal, of death and dresses - will shake Dorothea's belief in rationality, and the power of redemption.
Can Ruth be trusted? Is she mad, or a murderer?
Laura Purcell is a former bookseller, she lives in Colchester with her husband and pet guinea pigs. Her first novel for Bloomsbury, The Silent Companions, was a Radio 2 and Zoe Ball ITV Book Club pick and was the winner of the Thumping Good Read Award.
laurapurcell.com
@spookypurcell
The new Victorian chiller from the author of Radio 2 and Zoe
Ball ITV Book Club pick, The Silent Companions.
Is prisoner Ruth Butterham mad or a murderer? Victim or
villain?
Laura Purcell is a former bookseller and lives in Colchester
with her husband and pet guinea pigs. Her first novel for
Bloomsbury, The Silent Companions, was a Radio 2 and Zoe Ball ITV
Book Club pick and was the winner of the Thumping Good Read
Award.
laurapurcell.com
@spookypurcell
The Corset is a contender for my Book of the Year. Ruth and
Dorothea will live in my mind for a long time. Beautifully written,
intricately plotted, a masterpiece
*Sarah Hilary*
She’s done it again. More macabre magnificence from Laura Purcell -
intricately stitched together like one of seamstress Ruth’s
terrifying creations. The Corset will have you crushed within its
vice. Brilliant’
*Anna Mazzola*
An intriguing premise deftly executed, The Corset is genuinely
thrilling
*Elizabeth Haynes*
A romping read with a deliciously dark conceit at its centre.
Reminded me of Alias Grace. A worthy successor to The Silent
Companions
*Kiran Millwood Hargrave*
With the skill of a born story teller Laura Purcell has crafted a
tale as intricate and flawless as Ruth's stitches. By turns
horrifying and humorous, The Corset is a darkly compelling,
unsettling and fascinating book, where pseudo-science meets
needlework in the most chilling and unexpected ways ... The Corset
is the very best kind of gothic fiction. Reminiscent of Sarah
Waters and Margaret Atwood, but uniquely and unmistakably Laura
Purcell
*ES Thomson*
Deliciously creepy and atmospheric with a gripping plot, this book
will disturb your sleep. And I didn't see THAT ending coming
*Sarah J. Harris*
The Corset is a sharp-edged, emotionally freighted mystery, rooted
in the pitch-black darkness of Victorian poverty. An intriguing,
page-turning gothic tale of murder and the supernatural
*Sophia Tobin*
Praise for The Silent Companions: 'A sinister slice of Victorian
gothic … Creepy and page-turning
*The Times*
A perfect read for a winter night … An intriguing, nuanced and
genuinely eerie slice of Victorian gothic
*Guardian*
This intriguingly plotted novel is the full-blown gothic,
maintaining throughout an unsettling claustrophobic atmosphere
mixed with some unusual historical detail
*Daily Mail*
The nights are drawing in, low mists hang over the ground… What you
really need is something to terrify the bejeezus out of you. And
Laura Purcell has nailed it with a story that conjures up Susan
Hill’s The Woman in Black, Henry James’s The Turn of The Screw and
a little bit of Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
*Emerald Street*
Irresistibly creepy, this romps along, Purcell turning her screws
with skill. It’s what crumpets and dismal afternoons were made
for
*Glamour*
Phantasmic thrills ... A true page-turner … Neatly crafted and
compelling … The story ticks along at a good pace, with a
spine-tingling revelation every few pages
*Times Literary Supplement*
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